Johannes Caspar

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Johannes Caspar (born January 28, 1962 in Salzgitter ) is a German lawyer and honorary professor . He is the state data protection officer in Hamburg ( Hamburg commissioner for data protection and freedom of information ).

Life

Caspar passed his Abitur in Hanover in 1981 and then did his basic military service. After the first state examination in law in 1989, he obtained his doctorate in 1992 at the University of Göttingen and passed the second state examination two years later. From 1995 to 1999 he was a research assistant in the field of environmental law at the University of Hamburg , where he was a lecturer from 1996.

In 1999 he completed his habilitation in constitutional law , administrative law and legal philosophy , and in the same year he received a substitute professorship at the University of Marburg . After being admitted to the bar and working as a lawyer , he worked from 2000 to 2002 at the German Institute for International Educational Research in Frankfurt am Main. From 2002 on he was deputy head of the scientific service in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament . In 2007 the University of Hamburg awarded him the title of honorary professor. Caspar teaches constitutional and administrative law at the University of Hamburg.

Caspar is married to the television journalist Cathrin Caspar .

Act as data protection officer

On March 31, 2009, the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg proposed him as the new data protection officer. He was inducted into office on May 4, 2009.

The first high-profile action by Caspar was his action against the American company Google Inc. because of its plans to record the streets and buildings of Hamburg for Google Street View . The conflict was initially settled after Google made concessions.

Caspar launched the “You won't get my data!” Initiative and warns users against “digital tattoos”. Data protection must be taught in schools for education in order to sensitize future generations to the responsible handling of their data on the Internet.

Two months after Facebook introduced software for automated facial recognition , Caspar requested the deletion of the data collected, as the practice would violate German and European data protection law.

In 2015, Caspar did not submit the regular activity report, but a list of defects from his authority. The equipment and personnel situation are not sufficient to fulfill the legal tasks, such as the unreasonable controls of public areas and companies, including XING , Parship , Facebook and Google .

On June 11, 2015, Caspar was confirmed in his office by the citizens of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Re-election took place with 94 votes in favor, 8 against, and 3 abstentions (plenary minutes 21/8 of June 11, 2015, p. 440).

Caspar is one of the initiators of the Charter of Digital Fundamental Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

Since 2015, Caspar has represented the supervisory authorities of the federal states in the Article 29 data protection group, which advises the Commission on data protection issues at EU level.

The weekly newspaper Politico counts Caspar as one of the 28 most influential people in Europe for 2020 in its annual ranking.

Awards

The Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich awarded him the Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Research Prize in 2000 for his habilitation thesis Animal Welfare in the Law of Modern Industrial Society - A New Legal Structure on a Philosophical and Historical Basis .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Johannes Caspar is the new Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Biography at the City and State of Hamburg, www.hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Introduction to the office of the data protection officer, communication dated May 4, 2009
  3. ↑ ddp / pat: Google Street View ensures data protection in In: Focus online from May 20, 2009
  4. ↑ Hamburg school initiative: "You won't get my data!" Background information at lehrer-online.de
  5. ↑ Face recognition - data protection officials demand deletion from Facebook mirror-online from August 2, 2011
  6. ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Hamburger-Datenschutzbeauftragter-listet-eigene-Defizite-auf-3028853.html
  7. ↑ Johannes Caspar ; accessed on December 20, 2019.
  8. ↑ Well-known animal welfare award for Johannes Caspar , press service of the University of Hamburg from December 6, 2000 ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Caspar, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German data protection officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzgitter